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RIP Kevin Mitnick and long live his memory!On this episode of Emerging Tech Mastery (ETM) we brought back on good friend and contributor of the show Frank Trezza, Certified Ethical Hacker, InfoSec professional and all around good human.We discuss the legacy and memory of Kevin Mitnick, one of the best hackers of all time and master of social engineering techniques.In addition, we cover some initial hacker tools of the trade and resources around this fascinating profession.There's a lot of gre...

We recently did an episode, Our Top 10 Emerging Tech Predictions for 2024, to explore what might happen in Tech this year. We thought it would be fun to see what has taken place so far this year and whether we were on point or not.Here were our original predictions:AI disappears behind the scenesAI resurrects old and hard to use TechEveryone will be a video influencerMedia Tech will evolve FAST"New" Tech Innovation will be integrations of other techApple Vision Pro will not meet expectat...

Happy New Year! Ready for some Emerging Tech predictions for 2024? Well, don't worry we're happy to be wrong and contrarian. We considered this a fun thought exercise for posterity sake to see where our head and hearts were. In fact, some of these predictions are already beginning to poke their head up through the cracks of reality.Our Top 10 Emerging Tech Predictions for 2024AI disappears behind the scenes - It will then quietly be used in almost everything as an expected feat...

This episode is an initial exploration of real world examples of Technology used for social good. While researching our last episode, 6 Ways to Use Tech For Good, we came across a paper by McKinsey, a famous consultancy, called Tech for Good: Smoothing disruption, improving well being.The paper covers topics like core definitions of technology and well-being, how to measure the impact of technology, challenges and an overview of concrete case studies of Technology. Ultimately, there...

On this episode we explore using Tech for good, socially, economically and philosophically speaking.This show was originally inspired by a talk, How to make learning as addictive as social media, from Luis Von Ahn, CEO of Duolingo, a popular language learning app.In a world of manipulative uses of AI and Algorithms, this perspective was quite refreshing.He encourages us to take the lessons of today and apply them in even more powerful ways tomorrow.This sparked the idea of why we should use T...

On this episode we discuss Qortal, a community driven initiative aimed at making a new, user operated internet that leverages Blockchain's data security.Rather than focusing on token price and getting on more exchanges like other projects, Qortal focuses on making a usable, decentralized data infrastructure. The community and even User Interface (UI) harkens back to the vibes behind Torrents, Warez and even mIRC in the 90's-2000s.To elaborate we brought on one of the founders, Jason Crow...